I launched my blog to record the journal of my online adventure on making money and share them to people who are also interested in this field. As you all know, at the beginning, getting traffic and readers is the most difficult part. I just read an article: 101 Ways to Promote a New Blog. And I want to follow some of the points to get traffic for my new blog.
He says there are 101 ways. But I won’t use all of them. I don’t think they can work for everybody or every blog. I will choose some best for me to follow.
1. Write a list of over 100+ resources or ideas.
I didn’t think of 100+ ideas, maybe someday I will. But now I just write down what I am going to post tomorrow. Perhaps I finish the article tonight and post it tomorrow. I’ll post at least 1 article everyday.
2. After your articles are indexed in search engines, break them up into smaller articles and submit them to ezinearticles.com (and other article directories).
I don’t know why I should break them up into smaller articles. But I will figure it out and do it.
3. Write a list of all the cool blogs and people in your niche.
I don’t know much right now. I will find them out.
4. Check out the most popular content on high trafficked blogs. Create similar content but applied to your own niche.
5. Take action every day. Just get one important thing done every day and eventually you’ll start getting traffic. The more you do each day, the faster your blog get traction.
6. Find people with blogs at a similar level to yours and help each other out.
I like comment on this kind of blogs. They will reply me and visit my blog back.
7. Turn off your computer, do some cool stuff, turn on your computer again and blog about it.
8. Make it a numbers game. Decide upon a definite plan of action and stick with that.
For example, 20 blog comments per day, 1 guest post per week etc. I can do 20 blog comments per day, but 1 guest post is a little hard to me. I don’t write English article well. So I will just do the former.
9. Be the first commenter on the posts of popular blogs. But still provide value. If you can’t be the first then comment anyway. But try to be the first.
10. Stumble and Digg cool blog posts you find and let the blogger know via a comment. If you have something worthy on your blog, they’ll probably reciprocate.
OK, that’s it. I will take action and write them down on my blog or twitter since tomorrow. And I hope that you can improve the traffic of your blog by following these steps. So, what do you think the points above? Do you have some awesome ideas?